The Eco-Friendly Toilet Tech at One World Trade Center

With their stained shirts and dirty boots, you might not think of the construction workers who are building the new One World Trade Center (the Freedom Tower) as a bunch of environmentally-minded tree-huggers. Yet every day these workers are putting into practice some of the environmental movement's highest ideals, just by using the bathroom.

The Eco-Friendly Toilet Tech at One World Trade Center

The Eco-Friendly Toilet Tech at One World Trade Center

With their stained shirts and dirty boots, you might not think of the construction workers who are building the new One World Trade Center (the Freedom Tower) as a bunch of environmentally-minded tree-huggers. Yet every day these workers are putting into practice some of the environmental movement's highest ideals, just by using the bathroom.

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As workers build the Freedom Tower's skeleton, they work on a steel platform that moves up as the structure gets taller. And as the tower gets taller, it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to shuffle toilets around. So instead of going with the standard Blue Bowl, the Freedom Tower has become the first major construction site to use composting toilets.